Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 85%Very Positive · 85%2010

The verdict

A beloved, funny Battlefield with best-in-class destruction and a charming campaign. It's delisted and official multiplayer is dead, so skip it if you want official online play.

Great for

Fans of destruction-heavy shooters and humorous campaigns who already own it and can use Project Rome

Main risk

Delisted with dead official servers; multiplayer needs fan mods and CD key hassle

What players love

Funny squad and fun campaign

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews

“Entertaining story and characters. I enjoy the character banter and discussions they have when things go idle for a moment.”
Steam review · 11.6 h played ↗

“alongside BC1, it has the best story of the franchise.”
Steam review · 8.2 h played ↗

“Miss when battlefield campaigns had humor in them.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗

Best-in-class destruction

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“Destruction is at an incredible level: you stand behind a wall in a house and a second later the wall is gone.”
Steam review · translated · 2 h played ↗

“The destruction this 16 year old game is still top notch. Even BF6 cant have this right now.”
Steam review · 1.6 h played ↗

“The level of destruction was unheard of at that time.”
Steam review · 20.5 h played ↗

One of the best Battlefields

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“DICE and EA will never make another Battlefield game as good as this one.”
Steam review · 898.3 h played ↗

“The greatest battlefield game to have ever been made and set the standard that has never been met again”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗

Holds up well and runs great

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“Everything from graphics to gameplay holds up surprisingly well in 2025.”
Steam review · 7.4 h played ↗

“Great game. Runs great and plays great.”
Steam review · 7.3 h played ↗

Fan servers keep multiplayer alive

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“Only about 2 servers full of people but it's enough to still enjoy the game online.”
Steam review · 318.4 h played ↗

“You can still PLAY MULTIPLAYER through project rome, tell your friends”
Steam review · 2.6 h played ↗

Great sound design and gunplay

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews

“The audio reminds me of a Michael Mann movie, where the guns actually sound scary”
Steam review · 8.3 h played ↗

“gunplay feels heavy and tight”
Steam review · 74 h played ↗

What players complain about

Delisted and official servers shut down

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“This game was amazing back then but servers got killed, do not buy unless you want the story”
Steam review · 52.8 h played ↗

“MULTIPLAYER SERVERS DO NOT WORK. do not buy. scam.”
Steam review · 137.3 h played ↗

“Thanks, dear EA, for shutting down the servers of BC1, 1943 and BC2.”
Steam review · translated · 78 h played ↗

Missing CD key blocks multiplayer

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“If you do, you'll be pretty much locked out of multiplayer because it requires a CD key that isn't provided by Steam.”
Steam review · 1 h played ↗

“Multiplayer is missing”
Steam review · translated · 1.2 h played ↗

“Bought the game but can't play online because it requires a serial key that is nowhere to be found.”
Steam review · translated · 1.8 h played ↗

Key already used / account lockout

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews

“This game can only be installed on one PC.”
Steam review · 37.4 h played ↗

“After installing on another PC it says the activation key is already in use.”
Steam review · translated · 3.1 h played ↗

Unbalanced campaign and dumb AI

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 negative reviews

“both campaigns are horribly unbalanced almost rendering it way too annoying to even play trough.”
Steam review · 13.8 h played ↗

“some missions in the game are simply impossible to pass.”
Steam review · translated · 12 h played ↗

Crashes and bugs in campaign

Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews

“Crashes to main menu at cutscene during first mission.”
Steam review · 9.9 h played ↗

“The game crashes on cold war mission after the super-weapon container cut-scene .”
Steam review · 5 h played ↗

Short, linear, cinematic campaign

Mentioned in ~1 in 25 negative reviews

“A shooter where you don't shoot most of the time.”
Steam review · 12.1 h played ↗

“90% walking to a location, 10% shooting.”
Steam review · 9.1 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows XP

ProcessorCore 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz

Memory2GB

Graphics256 MB Video Card (GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900)

Storage15 GB

Recommended

OSWindows Vista or Windows 7

ProcessorIntel Core 2 Quad or higher

Memory2GB

Graphics512 MB Video Card (GeForce GTX 260/ ATI Radeon 4870)

OSWindows XP

ProcessorCore 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz

Memory2GB

Graphics256 MB Video Card (GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900)

Storage15 GB

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